Four federal court opinions* say N. Korea sponsors terrorism, yet the State Dep’t still denies it.

In case you missed it on my Twitter feed yesterday:

Americans are rightfully concerned about ISIS’s rampage across the Middle East. But one thing that even ISIS has not yet accomplished is what the president, the director of the FBI, and the director of the NSA all insist Kim Jong-un’s hackers did last year — suppress the release of a major motion picture by threatening terrorist attacks on movie theaters across America.

And yet, incomprehensibly—and two months overdue—the State Department’s recent Friday news dump of its annual “Country Reports on Terrorism” still clings to the tendentious, perennial boilerplate that North Korea “is not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Air Lines flight in 1987.” Coming so soon after North Korean threats drove The Interview from theaters, this statement puts the world on notice that the Obama Administration is unserious about protecting Americans’ most fundamental liberties from terrorism by the world’s worst despots.

Read the rest here, at The Weekly Standard.

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* Previously said “courts,” but technically, two of the opinions are from the D.C. District.